Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-12-02


Mr.. George Adair rents houses tG ,3Oo
| tenants. He states that re has issued IN
the last year one distress warrant TO
where he issued twenty two years ago
| Applause. | claim to he an lntelllgenG
man with some courage of conviction, DuG
| l pledge you my word, II that one IacG
were established to my satisfaction, l
would vote for this thing If l never heard
another Wcrd on this subject. Have you
| thought what that means-a distress war
rant? Il means eviction; it means Inc
, very thing that is to-day kidding the hearC
of this world for poor Ireland. 1t means
eviction 1t means turning women and
children out of the home that covers them.
and to which they are entitled. was as
| tonished at Col. Addir's statement Mr..
| Tally, who tents SIX OF eight hundrou
houses, says: Il used TO issue two or
| three distress WarIanIS-f0ur or 1ve-a
| mouth. | have not Issued single one
in eighteen month. Applause Now,
both of them are ProhlDlLlonlstS. Lei ME
| try you with Harry Ktouse He Was an
| anti-ProhlbitlonSt. He SAID: my d's-
tress warrants aver ged thirty SIX 10 the
months. | said:
"Then, my friend, don't cary you
conscience, tut how Cali you be an ans
PrOhlbltIonist?'
II amt My knowledge of the thing,
day bv day, among people 1 used to pesJer
and evict has changed my convictions,
and am red hot PrDhlbli lonlSt.
L went down to Mr.. Scott, VINO did not
vote for prohibitions, aud asked MIN. lie
said: Il have issued as many as twenty
five distress warrants III month, and L
have issued six 10 the last elg hteen months,
and five were TO get people out OF houses
because they were obnoxious to the neigh
Dors. l have issued one single distress
warrant for failure to pay rent"
| said, You didn't vote for prohlbl-
tion.''
He said. Il did not believe it was prac-
ticable.''
l asked, ''What do you think now?"
He said. - am going to vote. and vote,
for prohibition" Applause.
Mr.. Z ,berts was ProhiblJiOnist. He
is a square man and an intelligent man,
and is running for Council which is good
sign, Laughter and appla use He says,
my testimony is the same. L formerly
issued two or three distress warrants
every month, and | have not issued one
in twelve months"
Gent1emen-and ladies Qaughter), espe-
cially ladies' Is there any possible an
swer to that2 Is there any Industrial,
any social, any economic revolution that
has been worked since this world began,
that would account for the diminutiOn Ia
this most VICIOUS and intolerable of legal
enactmeDts? Have you thought about
what d distress warrant is
Have you ever thought about woman
being turned out of her house-the little
cottage that covers her and her children
Can you plcture-yOu who live in confer
table homes filled with light and warmth
and books and joy-can you think OF these
people-human beings, our brothers and
sjsters-the poor mother, brave though her
heart is breaking, budding her little chill
! dren about her-and the father, weak out
loving, and loving all the deeper because
he knows his weakness has brought them
| to his want and degradation-aud little
children, those If whom our Savior SAID
Suffer them tn come unto ne and forbid
| them not, there asking: mamma. where
will we sleep Tonight ?'-can you picture
| that ard then their taking themselves up
| and the woman putting her hand With IN
| dying love and faith In the hand of the
man she swore to follow through good and
evil report, and marching up and down
| the street-tbs p1tiable procession
| chi ough the unthiDking streets, by laugh
lug children, shiulng windows, looking for
| a hole where, like foxes, they may hide
| their poor heads
| My friend, they talk to you about per-
| s0Dai liberty; that man should have the
| right to go into grog shop aud see Ibis
| pititul piocesSion-noW stOpped-parade
| up aud down our streets again. They talk
| to You about the shades Of Washington,
| Monroe and jefferson. l would not give
one happy. rosy little woman, upilfted
| from that d.gradation-ha happy again in heI
home, with the cricket chlrping Cd her
| ba. hstn md mi nhjlArAn ahDnt haJ
| knees, her husband redeemed from dring
and at her slde-I would not give one OF
| them for all the shades of all the men that
ever contended since Cathaline cOnspired
| and Caesar fought.
LAT The epd of this sentence there was
d Tremendous cheering. Men and women
| waved their handkercaiefs, some Of them
standing up.)
Mr.. Grady proceeded.
J Now. my friends, we are told in OppO-
| sitlon to what have said to you they
are facts, they are my facts, they always
| get Jiiere'-Jhat' g the variety breed now
entirely. We are told in opposition to
that and Mr.. Adair will testif,, and see
| Mr.. Taily-I see him Tonight ont there,
! the was crying just nOws but he is smiling
| uoW) and ! see Mr.. Boberts-~their books
are testimony. Go and look at them. 1t
means simply this, that where Mr.. Adair,
renting to all sorts OF people. Issued tWen-
| ty distress warrants year ago, he issues
| one nOWs it u;eans that out OF every TWEEN.
| ty families evicted two years ago. there
are nineteen happy in their homes to-
night. (Applause) And yet we are told
We must Vote TO restore the old order be-
cause it has reduced Gov. Browns rental
column SIS 600 year Applause.)
LAT I'll T. end or this senteuce the scene
| Was almost iDdescrlble. Thousands of
handkerchief waved as before, men held
| up their hats On walking sticks and Whlrl-
| ed them in the air. The cheering Was al
most deafenlug)
| Mr., orady resumed speaking.
| My friend, l don't belleye that state
ment to begin with. do not believe his
rent income is fairly and permanently di-
miElsiltd So 100 a year aud ii 1t IS, he ia
my friend, aud | congratulate both him
! and myself Oh The fact that he is able to
stand 1t. [ say this in no spirit of sar-
| Gas u or criticism, but do Say if there ls
ID law. ii there IS a governmental theory,
| if there is. may it please you, an untried
experiment. that will shelter one honest
woman and two unconscious children in
tier homes, it is our duty to vote that
law and this GOVERNMENT duty TO enforce
| it, though IL should cut it down S2S5, 900.
! Tremendous applauSe). And the reason
for this is not based in communism, but
| 10 humanity. Ii the government owes
any da6y TO the individual it is that every
man, woman aud Child that Leads an hon.
est life is entitled 10 food a!.d shelter
and there is a df1fel ence to be found be-
tween diminishing The luxury OF the rich
Or protecting The poer In their blrthrlgHt;
it Is madness, and humanity, and good
| government, to let the rich suffer. Zap
| plause.)
Now, | have talked to you about the
rent; about the house that man ana his
wife live III; | have shown you. not by my
own assertion, but by the statement Of the
Gnly experts in the city-the real estate
men, who for years have handled from
three to four thousand houses-I have
shown you, | say, that were twenty suffer
ed before. nineteen are protected under
prohibition that don't prohibit. What
would we have with prohibition that d id